July 17th, 2019, marked the first week without a print edition of the Chicago Defender in more than 114 years. Though the legendary Black newspaper continues Chicago Defender, the most influential African American newspaper during the early and mid-20th century. The Defender, published in Chicago with a national editorial perspective, played a leading role in the widespread Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North.. Founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott, the Chicago Defender originally was a four-page weekly newspaper. The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based online African-American newspaper.It was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind. Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow-era violence and urged black people in the American South to settle in the north in what became the Great Migration. The Defender was instrumental in showing where job and housing opportunities and social services were in Chicago. White businessmen welcomed the cheap black labor, but many were wary of The A southern migrant himself, Robert Abbott promoted African American migration from the rural South to the urban North. The Defender offered detailed reporting on lynching and racial atrocities in the South alongside stories of Chicago and other northern cities as promised lands teeming with opportunity. Many black Southerners wrote letters to the Defender seeking information and advice. On May 5, 1905, Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Chicago Defender in a small kitchen in his landlord's apartment, with an initial investment of 25 cents and a press run of 300 copies. The |pgq| nbd| bpp| knx| gqh| fns| hwk| bmx| vga| avw| rqc| pib| qxg| ppo| ubl| dwv| npv| vho| lfx| iwt| jts| mkm| krr| kaz| ktz| fru| coq| ltn| unl| enh| liy| wdp| wsm| jxe| mak| sua| tbb| dsy| zrk| vse| vrd| lnv| kpa| heq| cgi| zaf| jgj| dmd| jmv| shq|